I don’t generally pass along news items that I can’t verify, but the U.S. outlet of the conservative British political publican The Spectator just posted a story alleging that Donald Trump was essentially blackmailed into pulling U.S. troops out of Syria by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who apparently threatened to release a recording of […]
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Was Donald Trump blackmailed into pulling U.S. troops out of Syria by Turkish President Erdoğan?
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged blackmail, Donald Trump, foreign affairs, foreign policy, Istanbul, Jamal Khashoggi, Jared Kushner, Kurds, MBS, Mohammad bin Salman, murder, Saudi Arabia, Syria, The Spectator, Turkey 13 Comments
THE TRUMP DOCTRINE: Appeasing Tyrants, Freeing terrorists and Endangering Allies to Achieve Maximum Chaos in a Post-Diplomacy World
When Donald Trump announced last week that, at the request of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, he would be pulling back American troops stationed in Syria, everyone knew exactly what would happen. We knew that our allies, the Kurds, would be wiped out by the Turks. And that’s exactly what’s happening right now. […]
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With his “We Shit on Allies” doctrine solidly in place, Donald Trump hands over the Kurds for slaughter
Back in December, 2018, without consulting any of his national security advisors, Donald Trump announced that we’d be pulling all U.S. troops out of Syria. The response, as you might remember, was both swift and overwhelmingly negative. Lindsey Graham said at the time, “An American withdrawal at this time would be a big win for […]
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